Reading Detectives

September 23, 2011 User deactivated Leave a comment

This week as part of our Sleeping Beauty project we have become Reading Detectives. First we looked at a page on the Promethean board and used the highlighting tool to show words and sounds that we knew. Next we all got a different page from one of the Sleeping Beauty books and using highlighters we coloured the words and sounds that we knew. It was great fun and we were all super detectives!

In number work this week we finished looking at patterns and have been learning about missing numbers and number sequences. We had lots of different activities to help us put numbers in order. Every morning we use our number square to help us learn about numbers.

Ms Gauld came to visit us this week to show us how to stay healthy by washing our hands. We watched a DVD with Handy who showed us when we should wash our hands and how to do it properly. We all went to the toilets to wash our hands and we did such a good job that we all got a Handy sticker. Watch out for our handwashing chart in our homework packets next week.

At gym we have been practising overarm and underarm throwing. This week we had a giant target which we had to throw our fluff balls onto to get points for our team. We also learnt a new game called clean the garden which was lots of fun.

Week Starting 26th September 2011

P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
P1a2 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
Remember to return your permission slips and money for our trip to the DCA Film Festival.
Book bags will be now issued on a Friday. Please read the book with your child over the weekend and return it to school on Monday morning.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning about the beginning, middle and end of a story.

Patterns all around

September 16, 2011 User deactivated 2 Comments

We have been very busy looking at patterns this week and have had great fun copying patterns and making up ones of our own. We love making patterns with the beads and giving our teachers pattern necklaces to wear.

This week we have been in the ICT Suite and have been using Textease Paint to create pictures of the thorny hedge that grew up around the castle whilst Sleeping Beauty slept for 100 years.

In Mrs Munro’s Learning Zone we have been looking for lots of phonics fairies, when we find them we have to write their sounds on a sheet. We feel very important walking round with our clipboards.

We had a visitor this week to tell us all about how to look after our teeth. We had two boxes and had to sort food that is good for our teeth and food that is bad for our teeth. We had a go at brushing the big teeth on the model of a mouth and a very funny dog! Next week we are going to start brushing our teeth in school.

Week Starting 12th September 2011

P1a1 have gym on Wednesday afternoon.
P1a2 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
Remember to return your Child Smile letters and your permission slips and money for our trip to the DCA Film Festival.
Book bags will be now issued on a Friday. Please read the book with your child over the weekend and return it to school on Monday morning.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning all about the importance of handwashing.

All Shapes and Sizes

September 9, 2011 User deactivated 3 Comments

The sound we have learned so far are s, a, t, p, i, n, c, k, e, h, m, r and d.

We have been using the Oxford Reading Tree Big Talking Cards to learn all about Mum, Dad and all the adventures the family have. We love to talk about what we can see in the pictures and Miss Davies and Mrs Mackay even have special puppets to help us remember who everyone is. Floppy is EVERYONES favourite.

We drew our favourite scenes from Sleeping Beauty and added speech bubbles to one of the characters in our picture. We stuck all our pictures in our floor book.

In numeracy we have been learning all about 2D shapes. We have been sorting, matching and drawing shapes. We liked to play the Feely Bag game where we could not see the shape but had to guess what it was by its features.

We also had our first school assembly and gym this week. We loved gym and were very good at balancing fluff balls using our bodies.

At the start of every week on our blog we will put some information about the following week in school.

Week Starting 12th September 2011

P1a1 have gym on Monday afternoon.
P1a2 have gym on Thursday afternoon.
Remember to return your Child Smile letters and your permission slips and money for our trip to the DCA Film Festival.
Book bags will be now issued on a Friday. Please read the book with your child over the weekend and return it to school on Monday morning.

On the day your child has gym, please ensure they have no jewellery and long hair should be tied up.

Next week we will be learning all about how to keep our teeth healthy.

We met Floppy

September 3, 2011 User deactivated 3 Comments

This week we have been learning some new sounds. We have been practising writing them at the writing table. We have also been writing our names. We love writing them on the aqua mats.

In our reading we have been learning about more of our Oxford Reading Tree characters. This week we met Floppy. Floppy is a dog. We also used the Magic Page and read books on the Promethean Board. We listened to At School and The Lost Teddy.

In our maths we have been learning about shapes and numbers. We have been counting and practising writing numbers.

We have been enjoying playing more with Sleeping Beauty. We have been drawing pictures of the characters of Sleeping Beauty. Some of us drew Sleeping Beauty, some drew the good fairy, the bad fairy, the prince, the king and the queen. Some of us even drew pictures of the spindle.

We have been playing at Sleeping Beauty in our classroom and Mrs Munro’s Learning Zone. We made pictures of a castle with shapes, made a castle with a thorny hedge all around and have been playing in Sleeping Beauty’s bedroom. We also have a floor book all about our learning through Sleeping Beauty.